Combined coal-hod and sieve.



' 'No. 741,454. I PATENTED 001?. 13,1903.

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COMBINED GOAL-H01) AND SIEVE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 10, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

Patented. October 13, 1903.

PATENT ()FFICE.

WILLIAM H. BYAR, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

CIOMBINED COAL-HOD AND 'SIEVE.

SPECIFIGATlON forming part of Letters Patent No.'741,454, dated October 13, 1903. Application filed January 10, 1903. Serial No. 138,558. 7 (No model.)

sylvania, have invented a new and useful- Gombined Coal-Hod and Sieve, of which the following is a Specification.

My invention is an improvement in coalhods, and has for its object the combination,

with a bed, of a sieve and a drip-pan below the sieve and forming the bottom of the bed.

The object of the hod is to separate water from wet coal, dust from dry coal, and it can also'be used for sifting ashes. g

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my device. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a section about on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 isa detail perspective view showing the inside of the bottom rim, the pan being removed. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the pan detached from the hod.

In carrying out my invention I employ a coal-hod A of the usual construction, having the loop-handle A and the rear tilting-han-v dle A yond the sides, forming a flange B, having the depending rim B. The bottom is centrally out out, the sides of the bed being secured to the edge of this cut-out portion, usually circular in shape, andover this cutout portion is the screen 0, forming the bottom of the hod. A rectangular screen 0,

curved to conform to the shape of the front of the bucket, is secured at its lower end to thefront side of the screen 0, which screen ter flange B at the front, and at its upper end the screen 0 is secured to a lip D, inclined at an angle to the 'front portion of the hod and forming a discharge-spout. By this c0nstruction a space E is left between the front of the hod A and the screen 0 and between the front portion of the flange B- and the screen (J, and this passage-way is one of. the main features of my invention. Within the front portion of the rim B and adjacent the top are the lugs B while in the rear is the slot B A flat spring B projects intothis slot, is bent backward and downward, and riveted to the inside of the rim, as shown in Fig. 3.

A pan having the bottom F and sides F is The bottom projects outward beadapted t6 nu within the rim B, and at the forward endthe pan has an outwardly-turned flange F and within the pan at the forward end is the segmental cross-plate F braced by the upright piece F At the rear of the pan the side is slotted at F to correspond to the slot B The crossplate is preferably arranged to slope downwardly to the rear and is so shown in the drawings.

When the pan is fitted into the rim, the flange F rests on the lugs B and the spring B engages the slot F thus holding the pan firmly in place.

When wet coal is placed in the bed, the water will drain through the screens into the pan, and when the bed is tilted the water will run-into the forward end of the pan and be held there by the cover-plate F When drycoal containing dust is placed in the bed and coal is poured out, the'dust will settle along the screen Oand pass into the passage E, and when the hod is put down the dust and dirt will slide through the passageway into the pan, passing under the plate F when thehod is again tilted.

A handle A is secured to the front of the hod, and by taking hold of this handle and that A the hod can be used for sifting ashes.

By pressing down on the rear end of the spring use with coal that is either wet or full of dust and dirt. It is'obvious that the screen may be fine or coarse, according to the kindof coal used, a finer screen being wanted for a small nut-coalthanfor a large-sized coal. 7 Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1; A coal-bod having an exterior flange around the bottom bent down to form a depending rim, lugs on the inner front side of said rim, a spring securedon the inner opposite side of the rim, apan havingfa flangeon its front portion adapted'to engage the lugs, a slot in the rear sideof the pan adapted to be engaged by the spring, and a screen above the pan.

2. A coal-bod having a front lip portion, an

inclined screen secured to the lower edge of of the screen, and an inclined plate in said the lip portion, a screen-bottom secured at 'pan said plate being arranged immediately its front edge to the lower edge of the inbeneath the front edge of the bottom screen. Io clined screen, the said edges being spaced WILLIAM H. BYAR.

5 from the front side of the hod, and a pan de- Witnesses:

tachably secured below the screen-bottom, WILLIAM F. GODSHALL, said pan extending in advance of the front WM. II. HOUOK. 

